Lise Doucette

Is he thinking of regime change?

Is he thinking of just sending a strong message?

Is he going to help the protesters?

Who's he going to back in the opposition?

None of us know.

And quite frankly, President Trump may not know.

Well, his last long post on Truth Social, which in capital letters, help is on the way to the protesters.

By then, the protesters had left the streets.

By then, the Iranian security forces' use of lethal force had sent people away.

It was just simply too dangerous.

Iranian journalists said to me, you'd have to have a death wish to go out into the streets.

There may still be pockets.

The near total internet blackout means that Iran is literally in the dark.

There's lots happening that we just don't know.

But what we do know from everything we hear is that roar on the streets has largely subsided for now.

And that's what President Trump was saying.

And let's see what happens next.

In the face of this brutal situation and in the face of this brutal attack, we have no knowledge of the whereabouts of the president, Nicolas Maduro. We'll hear from Caracas and Washington and get reaction from our chief international correspondent, Lise Doucette. He never has used the phrase regime change with Venezuela, casting it along with his top officials as being a national security threat. It is clear that this is regime change in all but name.

It certainly does harken back to those decades which were described as gunboat diplomacy, where the US felt it had every right to meddle, often through the CIA in toppling regimes, fomenting dissent. And when President Trump entered the White House for a second term, as you've been mentioning, he was very clear that that era was over, that he would no longer, as he said in a major policy speech in Riyadh,

be intervening in countries where the united states had little understanding it would not be taking part in nation building he would be letting countries determine their own future a speech that received tremendous applause on his first foreign trip across the gulf region many capitals beyond also welcomed this new approach by president trump who had promised in his inauguration speech to be a unifier